The goal of this tutorial blog post is to give you a three-minute overview of how to use the platform. Read the rest of the tutorial posts to gain a deeper understanding of the platform’s full functionality.
After you log in, the whole platform works by following three steps:
1. Exploring trend research
Every day, Quantumrun publishes long-form reports and curated external news links about emerging trends across a range of topics and industries. Depending on your subscription level, this trend content can be customized to your research interests. Use the filter dropdown found on most pages to filter for a topic you’re researching.
2. Bookmark trend research into Lists
Use the bookmarking icon found on top of most trend report/link posts to bookmark the content you’re researching into custom Lists you create and curate.
Clicking on this icon will open a bookmarking popup that will display all the Lists you created that you can bookmark the content into. You can open up with the same popup inside individual report/link pages by clicking on the ADD TO LIST button on the right sidebar.
To create your first List, enter the name of your List in the bottom field of the bookmarking popup and press the black button.
All your Lists can be found on the MY LISTS page found in the main menu.
3. Convert Lists into visual Projects
The final (optional) step is to open the PROJECTS page (found under the Visualize link in the main menu) to convert your lists into visual graphs called Projects.
Click on the VISUALIZE button in the top-right corner to open a Project creation form. Fill out the required fields. Optionality, select one or more Lists whose bookmarks you can import into the Projects.
Once complete, the new Project will appear at the top of the PROJECTS page.
You can select any number of Project visualizations to create:
The Strategy Planner that companies use for strategy development projects.
The SWOT and VUCA graphs that combine trend research with popular management frameworks.
The Ideation Engine that product teams use to brainstorm new product/service ideas.
And the Scenario Composer for trend segmentation.
We also have more project page types, more data visualizations in the works, and our development roadmap sees new projects released every four to six months.
Summary
That’s the platform at a macro level. It really is that simple once you get the hang of it. And it’s that simplicity that makes it possible to train teams and departments on using the platform in under 30 minutes and using all the advanced power-user features in under an hour.
Remember:
- Browse and discover interesting trend content,
- Bookmark that content to lists,
- And then convert those lists into one of several actionable projects.
